Big Top by Rob Harrell for September 25, 2010

Good morning Tribe et al. My but

it is lonely here this morning.

Dusty, Why do I suddenly hear that REM - Losing My Religion song? It’s all your fault.

So where’s breakfast at? Not to worry I got it covered.

Breakfast Menu:

Cheese Souffle Casserole Apple-cinnamon Oatmeal Venison Swiss Steak, Pepper Steak, or pot roast Scalloped potatoes and chicken Macaroni and cheese with baked beans spaghetti and meatballs with a side of green beans and garlic bread warm or cold pizza Poptarts or cereal bars Steak and shake slaw dog. Beverages: Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha (Courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav) My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies Regular coffee, with creamer on request Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot Fountain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats Blechy Beer Soda straight from a can. Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk Ice Water Dessert special: Apple peanut crumble, and chocolate fondue

Good morning, All,

I don’t have a breakfast menu, but,

IT’S MARGARITA FRIDAY!!!!!

Let’s party!!!!

Coffee bar and regular bar is open, so come as you are!

Dear Little Sis: One number one, please.

You got Bargrove Here you go :-)

Good Morning Tribeandall!

Sorry I was late everyone, I just got home from my date.

Hi, Lil’ Sister, MontanaLady & Bargrove!

Great menu, Lil’ sister!

Hi Big Brother how was the pool game?

Can I please have a large thermos of Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee?

It’s the best there is!!

One large thermos of Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Already for you Big Brother. :-)

Thank you so much, Lil’ Sister!

We won tonight, so one of my three teams has advanced! The other two start tomorrow and the one from tonight continues.

Alright! Woo-Hoo! :-))

Good night everyone. I got to go to bed now because I have a birthday party to go to, in the morning.

Good Night, Lil’ Sister

Hello all!

I’ll have Venison Swiss Steak and Scalloped potatoes.

Sorry but I fell asleep waiting for turnover

Time for more zzzzzz’s.

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Grats Terry quick hit now it’s off to ni night

POOF!

Good morning Doc You aren’t the only one that’s wakes up early. Though I might go back to bed for a couple of more hours.

88LITTLE SISTER88 I’ll try your first culinary delight, please. It is more air than calories? Oh, a cup of the good DOC’S FINEST to wipe the cobwebs away. Please.

Morning TRIBE! In order for Dusty’s new religion to take off, don’t they need a martyr?

Help yourself Lewreader.

Good Morning, Bargrove, Little Sister, MontanaLady, ♠Lonewolf♠, Sojourner, Runs with Beer, Doctor Toon & Lewreader.

 Good Morning Peoples!

    Do you have any idea what time it is? Have you all lost your minds?

Congrats on the win, ♠Lonewolf♠

RwB, don’t know if you’re monitoring today but no big surpise that your greeting was deleted @ B.C. yesterday. So was my return greeting.

Hi Big Sister, I’d still be asleep but I had to wake up and let my two dogs out.

Hello Grog

Good Morning, LuvH8!

The clock on the computer says 7:28 CDT that’s 5:28 your time. What are you doing up?

Big Sister we lost our minds a long time ago.

Doc, every time I try to use 10am as my bedtime somebody gets cranky with me. No one seems to want to schedule appointments at 2am either.

Little Sister that could explain it. I am afraid that I lost mine so long ago, I am not even sure which zip code it is in.

Grog, 7:30 is still earlier than I want to be awake.

I have no idea what time that I will be home later.

LuvH8, I try not to change things up too much on week-ends. I still like to get an early jump on the day to get errands/chores done so that I can sit around and watch football the rest of the day.

Where are you going Little Sister?

You could do your errands early, instead of reading the comics early? (hides behind couch)

Is football today?

To my friends birthday party. She’s turning 19.

Only college as far as I know.

Good Morning Tribe!

It’s a beautiful day in the Big Top neighborhood once again!

Good Morning, LuvH8, Grog, Doc, Lewreader, RwB, Lil’ Sister & Sojo!

Thanks for the congrats everyone. The rough stretch will be today as I run between the three teams. Luckily I am Captain of only one team. On the other two I am just another mate,

Well, Big Brother I wish you all luck.

Oh Holes in Cows! Awake and Cheerful!!!

That is just not right.

Hello Lonewolf Congratulations on your games yesterday. Good Luck on your games today. Be careful with your balls and stick thingy.

Have fun Little Sister.

I have at least two more hours I can sleep before I could go anywhere anyway so…………..

Good Night Everyone

Don’t make me laugh to hard because I’m drinking hot coffee.

Good night Big Sister

Good night, LuvH8

Sleep well, Doc.

I’m off to do some chores now.

Good Morning Lonewolf, Little Sister, LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, RwB, Doc, MontanaLady, Woodeye, hopeandjoy2, Johanan Rakkav, Rmom,Lewreader, Digital Frog, The Sojourner,Bmonk,

Drug enforcement is taking drugs and expired drugs in no questions asked. Where were they 11 years ago. When our dad died he had a lot to get rid of I would have been glad to use that service. Busy day a lot of traveling coming going with sis and hubby with us two here to OK City to view memorial from Fed building that local terriots blew up over 15 years ago. Not as bad as NYC WTT, though locally bad enough 1,000’s of lives changed.

Hello LittleSis, Lonewolf, Bargrove, Montana Lady, Grog, Sojo, LuvH8, Kabbuch, Doc, Mr and Mrs Front Porch and all the ships at sea.

Hello Sister Kab

Hello Frankr

Birthday party over already, LilSis?

Hasn’t started yet Frankr, Not untill 10 :00 A.M.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Good Morning TRIBE! ☼♪

Hello to all those here!

♠Lonewolf♠ - Congrats on the win last night. Enjoy today!

Good morning or afternoon, tribe! I’ve decided I was in over my head trying to tutor my son in College Algebra, since I’d never taken the course, don’t go to class with him, and I don’t have a solution manual. Spent most of last evening arranging for a tutor for him. Thankfully, she is my best friend’s daughter, so it should mean that I’ll have an excuse to spend more time with my friend. I’m trying to help Kab with her English for her written Pyschology assignments. In the process, I ran across a neat website that does a great job of helping people remember which word to use for proper grammar. The examples are more interesting than the ones generally used in English classes.

Hello Rmom - Thanks for the link. Grammar and spelling is my worst area.

Sojo - My grammar is fairly good, mostly because my parents’ grammar wasn’t horrible - not perfect, but fairly good. Also, I love to read books, and that has helped me to get an eye and ear for the correct spellings and usages. However, because I picked up most of my grammar naturally, I tested high enough that for junior high, I was placed in an Accelerated English class. Which meant that I was never taught grammar, including grammar rules and diagramming sentences.

Hello Tribe

Lunch/Brunch/Lupper/Supper/Dinner is served.

Chicken nuggets French Fries Rotel cheese dip (home made myself) w/sesame seeds assorted dips for those who don’t like mildly hot stuff Jalapenos to add to the cheese dip for those who like it hot

Assorted Drinks, coffe (all kinds including Doc’s teas

For dessert, cake and ice cream bar complete with all the fixings. Imagine it and it’s yours!!

Enjoy, just like I am. Later.

Rmom - I tend to follow logic. Spelling and grammer didn’t seem to follow set rules (too many exceptions). Because of that I lost intrest in learning it.

Quaby - Thanks for the lunch it sure looks good. I’ll have German chocolate cake for desert! :-)

Pop

Good Afternoon

(((TRIBEANDALL)))& Grog

Doncha just love messing with ‘em, Grog? Tho I’ll probably get my account pulled if I keep it up. It just seems a tad asinine to flag greetings. Maybe if we whisper. Anyone know how to generate a #4 font size? Toon comment 5 Grand an hour and he’s complaining? gotta go for now. It’s a REALLY nice day clear and low 60’s YES! BBL

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Sojo - I know much of English grammar and spelling seems illogical. However, I believe that if one studies the history of language, it becomes clearer. Many of the phonetical rules vary because of the root language that word came from, such as Saxon, French, Briton, etc. Also, many spellings varied from region to region, based on one’s accent. With the advent of the printing press, there was a need for more standardized spellings of words, which is why Noah Webster created the American dictionary. The problem comes in teaching English, it is comprised from so many different original languages, that one would have to spend a lot of time studying the history behind the rules, so the rules are taught through rote memory more than through logical thinking. I don’t do well at rote memorization either, I memorize context and meaning more than I do just regurgitating facts. One of the reasons I do well in spelling, is because I have excellent hearing, and my mother taught me the sounds the different letters make before I entered public school. Therefore, I can sound out the words, and catch many of my mistakes before I hit “send”.

Quaby - Thanks for the cheese dip! Of course, since it is virtual for me, the sesame seeds aren’t a problem for me like they are in real life. (Can’t have seeds due to diverticulitis.)

Rmom That’s a bummer about the diverticulitis. The sesame seeds add just a hint of sweet to the dip.

And now I’m getting the sleepies. I have a bit more energy today, dunno how long that will last, but sleepies mean SLEEP, do not take 5-Hour. There’s no need for 5-Hour when your bed is assessable without fear of being fired.

Later, Tribe

Rmom - Origanal Japanese before it became mixed with Chinese solved many problems. I think their alphabet had 52 letters (50 something). Each letter was a sound, each sound had it’s on letter. Alhough it took longer to learn the alphabet, once learned a small child could read and spell anything. I remember once when working with EMS we had an address on “Shadows” street ( that’s how it sounded). Although we were headed in the right direction I couldn’t find it on the map. Finally dispatch had to locate it and tell us where it was. It was in a new rich area with special street names. I remember the street didn’t have an “s” or “w” in it (or an “h” I think).

Sojo - I know one of the things that make spelling tricky is that the Romans insisted that the Latin letters were used for each language area they conquered. (I don’t think they were as successful with the Jews as most of the other groups.) So, the same letters were used for French, Spanish, English, etc. That’s why it takes two letters for the “th” sound - there are more sounds than letters. I have a rough time with spelling foreign words that I haven’t seen & heard much. I remember thinking “Sean” should always be pronounced like “seen” instead of “shawn”.

Good Afternoon Doctor Toon.

@Sojo & Rmom, another difficulty with English is drift of word pronunciations.

Some words that used to rhyme, and so had similar spellings, kept the spellings but not the sound (tough / cough for example–these lost the “yogh” sound, a gutteral fricative, which dough also lost, but in a different way).

Korean is another language which is easy to spell–but then their alphabet was only devised about 700 years ago.

Good Afternoon bmonk - Thanks

Rmom and Kab - Severe T-storm headed our way. Will hit ICT soon then Rmom.

May be just under severe category. 45 mph, heavy rain and may be no hail :-)

Have fun Doctor Toon.

YYYAAAAWWWWNNNNN

Gee, I slept through Lupper and moved right into Supper. There’s plenty left Tribe. Personally I think the elves from Hogwarts live behind/beside/under the tent and that’s why our food has a hard time ending.

Got to move on to real stuff, the Yard Sale is next saturday and I’ve got tons and tons to do.

Don’t strain yourself Quaby - The food tastes great, thanks!

RMOM Be grateful to have missed grammar. I went from 5th grade math to algebra, thereby missing the New Math 0f the 60s. I may not know a thing about set theory, but I remember both semesters of calculus. In grad school Macro-economics, when the professor started writing funny markings on the board, my younger co-students looked around with a dazed look. But they knew set A was a subset of set B.

T-storm letting up. Gap between first cells going over me and hardly getting rain. :-(

Sojo - Just got back from ICT. I was driving on K-96 to Kellogg, and the rain was coming down very hard. The way K-96 is there, I didn’t really expect there would be enough water on the pavement to hydroplane, but I think there was enough. I was glad to have a stick shift, so I did okay. I was thankful for the Rain-X on my windshield, too! As soon as it moves far enough south, we’re going to supper. BBL.

Doc - You did see Zack Hill today, didn’t you?

Hey all. Got back close to 7pm. Ones in KS if you ever have a chance go to OK City seen the Murrow Fed building impressive what was rebuilt after the terrorist attach 15 years ago. Attack was 4/17/95. I asked ones who work there an OK legislator has decreed student’s should study the bombing that took place then. ThanksRmom I read your email and have yet to check the link. I have it saved on word documents. By the way I know I have trouble with word maintenance I know there are two n’s as I have to write up workorders and record on Excel for dept and certain staff to see including boss.

We came upon a little rain heading to ICT hour away from OK then close to Haysville ran out of rain. Nice and cool here.

Hi Kab - Glad you had a good trip.

I unfortunately have to say this I wasn’t raised like Rmom my mom dropped out of school from 8th grade. She is 85 schooling was never priority to her whereas helping her dad was in her young days. She tries to pattern off of him to. Like her house she feels like her dad did though different century. Her dad let the house go to pot back in 60’s as a result torn down. She doesn’t know this yet next Sat son-in-law plans to do work where siding has come down. Right now she doesn’t feel so good. Sinus infection again w/headache.

Seems like everyone is gone.

Kab - I can’t hang around very long. My hubby & I are looking up restaurants for dinner tomorrow. His b-day is Monday, so it is my treat to him. (He usually does a lot of the cooking for Sunday dinners.)

I’m on now.

(sweep, sweep)

Good Evening hymenoxis.

Good evening, Sojourner.

(mop, scrape)

(dust, wipe)

(vacuum, rearrange)

There. Much better.

Pre-cleaning for tomorrow afternoon hymenoxis?

Wow. Quiet day - quiet night.

I better start cooking.

Goog evening Grog - I don’t have any menus yet.

Hi Sojourner. I’m glad I’m not alone here.

None of the usual late night suspects are here.

It is strange for some.